Elegy News

A Series of Clips From Penelope Cruz's 'Elegy' Arrives

July 29, 2008 11:07:38

Samuel Goldwyn Films have given movie lovers a chance to see deeper into the Isabel Coixet-directed drama "Elegy" through five new clips. All of the clips are focused on the main character David Kepesh portrayed by Ben Kingsley and two of them displayed Kepesh's relationship with the student he is obsessed with Penelope Cruz's Consuela Castillo.

Though the length of the videos is varied from fifty seconds to one minute fifty, all of them help to give out more information about what the movie is all about. Sharing more of the drama in the complicated life of Kepesh, the clips also give out a better look into the dynamic between him and other characters played by Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard and Patricia Clarkson.

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Penelope Cruz's 'Elegy' Gets Trailer

June 10, 2008 10:06:28

A brand new trailer for "Elegy", a drama movie starring Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz, have been released. The video footage compiled of the clips from Samuel Goldwyn Films' tidbit brings viewers closer to the romantic and passionate story between a college professor David Kepesh and a beautiful young woman Consuela Castillo.

The trailer exposes the life of Kepesh before and after he met the woman who will change his life. Opened with compilation of clips showing Kepesh romancing different women, the video footage builds up displaying the attraction between him and Castillo and showing his mixed feeling towards her.

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Four Reading an "Elegy"

April 12, 2007 01:04:59

Lining up together to join Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper, and Deborah Harry have all given their agreement to take part in Lakeshore Entertainment's dramatic feature "Elegy", The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novella "The Dying Animal", the project sees Kingsley as a cultural critic named David Kepesh who finds his life gets thrown into tragic disarray by her sophisticated student Consuela Castillo, played by Cruz, after they embark on an erotic affair. It is still unclear yet what role the four are set to portray.

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Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz Write An "Elegy"

March 06, 2007 04:03:46

Coming together to share scenes as onscreen lovers, Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz have both agreed topline "Elegy", a dramatic feature of Lakeshore Entertainment production, Production Weekly has reported.

An adaptation of Philip Roth's short novel "The Dying Animal", the project will see Kingsley play an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college named David Kepesh who finds his life put into disorder upon meeting Consuela Castillo, set to be played by Cruz, a student in one of his courses. However, as he forms an erotic liaison with her, a maddening sexual possessiveness gradually transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy, threatening him to fall into his own destruction.

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Fantastic movie, although one can get a completely different feeling than from the trailer. Movie is slower, and plot

posted by Babs on Sep 30, 2008

Brilliant in every way- utterly powerful in its expression of aging, lust, love, tenderness and genuine angst.

posted by yankeefan30 on Sep 23, 2008

I need to know the song name at the end of the trailer

posted by Song at the end? on Sep 20, 2008

What a huge waste of time, actually hate this more than the english patient.

posted by Boopy on Sep 08, 2008

Very fine film,sterling performances all round.Soundtrack fits well,Debbie harry looking frumpy but still hottish undeneath.

posted by johnboy on Aug 11, 2008

Music is very nice in this movie

posted by fan on Aug 04, 2008

Much thanks to moviefan. I've been searching high and low to find this. Once again, a humble thank you.

posted by curious to know? on Jul 28, 2008

thank you guys, been looking for it

posted by pmhburyatia on Jul 27, 2008

The song is "La Petite Morte" by Luis Oliart.

posted by moviefan on Jul 25, 2008

Who sings the song at the end of the elegy trailer?

posted by curious to know? on Jul 23, 2008